The 20th century can almost seem wonderful when you remember that Frida Kahlo had an affair with Leon Trotsky. It wasn’t wonderful, of course — it was a century you wouldn’t wish on anyone.

Kahlo was friends with the painters Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso, and had an affair with the exiled Russian leader Leon Trotsky (he and his wife lived with the couple for a while in Mexico ...

"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly ... husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with ...